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Google DeepMind · 1 month ago

Research Engineer, Developer Experience, Gemini Robotics

Mountain View, California, US

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$166K/yr - $244K/yr

Google DeepMind is a team of scientists and engineers working to advance artificial intelligence for public benefit. The Research Engineer will act as a technical bridge between core teams and the developer community, driving the adoption of foundational models and tools in the robotics domain.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentFoundational AIMachine Learning

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Prototyping and reference implementation: Act as the "zeroth user", build prototypes, write and maintain code examples and demos, evaluate developer workflow and provide critical, hands-on feedback to improve developer experience

Own open source: Develop and maintain open source repositories and libraries, and improve the general project for external developers

Technical Content and Education: Create and publish technical content, such as tutorials, integration guides, API documentation, video workshops, and deep-dive blogs, etc, that simplifies complex concepts and lowers the barrier to entry for developers

Community Engagement & Advocacy: Represent Google DeepMind as a technology advocate at major robotics conferences and events (e.g., ROSCon, ICRA, ...), attend developer meetups, etc. Actively engage with the community on forums (e.g. Discourse), GitHub, etc, answering questions, resolving problems, collecting feedback

Strategy and Ecosystem Growth: Help define road map and strategy for new robotics models, SDK and tools. Drive the growth of our developer ecosystem

Qualification

Robotics experienceOpen source developmentDeveloper community managementTechnical content creationFoundation models knowledgeDeveloper empathyCommunication

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience

Experience of managing successful developer communities, especially in the area of robotics and foundation model

Experience in developing and maintaining (open sourced) software libraries or applications with external developers

Practical experience with robotics and/or foundation models; worked with popular robotics stack, tools and libraries

Preferred

Passionate about robotics and foundation models. Envision a future world in which robots are ubiquitous. Eager to accelerate the progress via building and developer community to maximize leverage

Compassion with developers. Willing to help others understand a technical concept or onboard a new technology with examples, tutorials and documentations

A portfolio of technical blog posts or public events engagements in robotics or foundation model areas

Excellent verbal and oral communication

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google DeepMind

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Google DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system to solve intelligence and advance science and humanity. It is a sub-organization of Google.

Founded in 2010